- Her last name is pronounced Vice.
- Formed the Talking Tongues theater company
- Her mother, Edith, is a Viennese-born psychotherapist (wanted to act herself, encouraged Rachel to try theatre). Her father, George, is a Hungarian-born inventor.
- Lives in a $450,000 London apartment.
- Drives a Jaguar
- Has been voted one of the most beautiful actress' by Hello (UK magazine) magazine.
- Was a model at fourteen.
- Was the most popular girl in college, according to fellow Cambridge student Chris Weitz.
- Has refused point blank to ever return to THE MUMMY movies.
- Sometimes Credited As: Kenya Campbell
- Has recently become a patron of The X Appeal, which is the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists.
- Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines.
- When Rachel was younger, she spoke only German.
- Her last name means white in German.
- Is terrified of frogs.
- Loves heavy rock music, particularly Led Zeppelin.
- In a BBC costume drama about the French Revolution, Weisz played an unhinged woman who cradles Ewan McGregor's head after he has been guillotined. The props department didn't have a prosthetic head so McGregor had to spend a few hours under Weisz's skirt, his head popping up through a hole in her lap.
- Eye color: Greenish Hazel
- Spoke German as a kid
Quotes- "I found myself a sophisticated, educated American. He's not an actor. He's travelled the world. He knows where Europe is, unlike a lot of Americans. He's very cultured, but he's all man."
- "You just have to play every scene honestly and forget about a reaction and what the audience is going to think. I think the more seriously you take something, the more funny it might be."
- "There's nothing I would do if I didn't act. I've only ever wanted to make films and now I am. So, right now, I'm sorry to say, I'm very satisfied. It's gross, isn't it?"
- "I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans."
- "I find Hollywood really toxic."
- "I love the people, the food and the style of living in Italy. I think Italians are the most humans."
Awards- Critics' Circle Best Newcomer Award
- Edinburgh Festival: student drama award (1991)
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